The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Faster boot time?

    Discussion in 'Alienware 14 and M14x' started by Mudig, Jun 13, 2011.

  1. Mudig

    Mudig Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    8
    Messages:
    212
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Is there a way to make the laptop boot up faster(HDD)?
     
    Mudig, Jun 13, 2011
    #1
  2. Tsukurimashou

    Tsukurimashou Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    189
    Messages:
    468
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Clean the task that launch at boot with msconfig, do a registery cleaner, defrag your HDD.
    And if you have money, buy a SSD but I think you just ask how to boot faster with our HDD and without changing it.
     
    Tsukurimashou, Jun 13, 2011
    #2
  3. ted264

    ted264 Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    20
    Messages:
    207
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    go into msconfig and turn off unwanted startup items....
     
    ted264, Jun 13, 2011
    #3
  4. c69k

    c69k Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    1,118
    Messages:
    1,301
    Likes Received:
    1,032
    Trophy Points:
    181
    to save 4-5 seconds disable No GUI boot, which disables win 7 startup animation.

    Click Start
    type msconfig
    ENTER
    you get System configuration
    click Boot
    check NO GUI boot
    restart
     
    c69k, Jun 13, 2011
    #4
  5. Matt Woller

    Matt Woller Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    13
    Messages:
    359
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Both a Momentus XT or a SSD would help boot time, if you're looking for a hardware fix.
     
    Matt Woller, Jun 13, 2011
    #5